1. Latitude & Longitude

3. Test in 2 classes – next Thursday
Next class you’ll get a review sheet
It’ll be up on the class website that night
You can start looking through your notes if you like

4. Latitude
Latitude: these horizontal lines are called parallels of latitude.
The Equator is at 0°. (The Equator divides the globe into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere).
The numbers go up to 90° North (the North Pole) and 90° South (the South Pole).

5. The area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is the called the Tropics.

6. Longitude
Longitude: these vertical lines are called meridians of longitude.
The Prime or Greenwich Meridian is at 0° (it’s called that since it goes through Greenwich, England).
It divides the world into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

7. The Prime (Greenwich) Meridian is the 0° line of longitude.
The International Date Line is the 180° line of longitude. This is where the date changes at midnight.

8. Cardinal Directions Cardinal Directions: N, S, E, W
Ordinal Directions: NE, NW, SE, SW

9. Solstices & Equinoxes

10. Winter Solstice Between Dec 21-23 in the Northern Hemisphere
Hours of sun in Reykjavik: 4:08
Between Dec in the Northern Hemisphere
This is the shortest day of the year in the N. Hemisphere
24 hour night in Arctic Circle
Sun directly overhead (Subsolar point) at Tropic of Capricorn
Hours of sun in London: 7:50
Hours of sun in Ottawa: 9:15
Hours of sun in Singapore: 12:03

11. Summer Solstice Between June 20-22 in Northern Hemisphere
Longest day of the year in N. Hemisphere
24 hour day in Arctic Circle (Midnight Sun)
Subsolar point is at Tropic of Cancer
Hours of sun in Barrow, Alaska: 24
Hours of sun in Toronto: 15:26